If I didn't want to work for a couple of years I wouldn't have to - it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.
I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.
When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man.
Every pain is a lesson.
Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.
I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.
The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.